Ghost Adventures 100th Episode:
The Exorcist House
Ghost Adventures reached their 100th
episode milestone. They've also been in their eighth season for a while now. It
has been decent; not too bad not too excited but we're only eight episodes into
said season. The place that happened to be investigating on their 100th episode
was the house that inspired the popular movie The Exorcist.
A bit of history first, it's based
off a book that is based off of events that took place in 1949. It started in
Maryland and ended in St. Louis where the exorcism took place. A boy who has
remained unnamed even after all these years, experienced demonic possession and
as various sources feel the need to state, he was from a troubled home. Some
details are sketchy and vary in places but cutting it down to size those facts
remain the same.
The movie plot is different
obviously, but it had plenty of rumors surrounding it like deaths before the
film release and a fire that took place on set. It was probably not related to
the fact that they were filming a movie about an actual event, but it's still
fun to look at some of the facts found on the internet. She mentioned the whole
'the kid and his grandmother were playing with an Ouija board and that's how
the demon possessed him' story. There may be variations on this throughout the
internet but bottom line a demon showed up and possessed the boy and might have
told them to go to St. Louis, or they had relatives in St. Louis and thought
maybe a vacation might help their son's behavior, insert theory here. There was
a different show, unrelated to Ghost Adventures that mentioned the boy having
Louis carved into his body and for the life of me I don't remember what it was,
when I watched it, and what channel it was on.
The Exorcist house episode was
pretty interesting. It dealt with the possibility of demons again and with
their history with demonic hauntings, and the great niece of the priest who did
the exorcism stating she knows it was real (the 1949 exorcism) and refused to
be interviewed anywhere near the home were pretty chilling starters to the
whole episode. I feel the balance of interviews and pre-investigation theatrics
to set up the whole tone of the episode leaned more towards the interviews and
reminding you that, this is where one of the most famous exorcisms in history
took place and there may be a demon still here but it could just be residual as
well. It's not that the investigation lacked in evidence because they received
some very compelling evidence, I just felt like I had to wait forever to get to
the investigation, and then once the investigation happened it didn't hold up
to the hype. I do like how this episode really shows how much they've grown as a
team and how they've 'grown up' when it comes to this case. In the earlier
seasons Zak was very full charge guns blazing when it came to demons and it was
very reckless. However they were still trying to re-invite a demon into a house
which is just a stupid and reckless as going in guns blazing.
I haven't given praise where praise
is due. They did get good EVPs and had an intense spirit box session. Those
were the two that stood out to me. I disagree with the use of the Ouija board
but they weren't necessarily using it as indented. It was just sitting there as
a trigger object to get the voices. However, the Ouija board might have had
something attached to it because later on they interviewed the guy they got the
board from and he said he saw a shadow figure in his house after previously
using the board. So was it the residual energy or actually active energy of the
house or was it something brought in with the board the whole time? Either way
they got some pretty good evidence whether it was the spirits they were trying
to initially contact or different ones.
I know they can't always get
definite answers on investigations. Paranormal investigations don't work by
walking in and demanding something to happen and it always happens once you
tell it to do something. Also even if you did a live playback there's still no
way to know if you have a definite yes or no as to the thing you want answered
about the haunting. It's rather disappointing that they went in and got half of
an answer but they did their best on their limited time schedule. This episode
wasn't a complete failure, it was rather successful, but I couldn't felt but
feel slightly disappointed. I can't put my finger on what disappointed me about
the whole thing. Normally I know what disappoints me about an episode of
anything, not this one. So I'll give it an okay approval. It wasn't mind
blowing, while it did have some mind blowing evidence.
